GETTING STARTED

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND STEWARDSHIP

BY SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

Thank you for your interest in contributing to this survey…

Small-scale fisheries communities and organizations are invited to share their experiences until the end of July 2022

Those invited to participate and contribute their experiences are specifically:

coastal and inland small-scale fishing communities (with fishing as a prominent livelihood);
small-scale fishery organizations (whose members are primarily or all fishers and/or fish workers);
economic or professional organizations, associations, cooperatives, etc., that represent small-scale fishers and fish workers, e.g., in fishery management;
supporting organizations that have a primary mandate to work with and support small-scale fishery communities and organizations, and which can complete the survey with information about a specific fisher organization or fishing community

If your organization includes smaller or local fisher organizations or fishing communities, you are welcome to not only provide your organization’s experiences, but also to make the opportunity to do so known to those other communities and organizations, in case they wish to participate themselves.

Participation should take around 30 minutes, depending on how much detail you wish to provide. The focus is on your fishing organization or fishing community (or one with which you work, in the case of support organizations). First, you will be asked for your own contact information, information on the organization or community, and general aspects of environmental conservation and stewardship for the organization or community. Then, in the main part, you are asked to choose a specific example of environmental conservation / stewardship that the community or organization has carried out, or participated in, within the past 5 years. This could be one led by the community or organization, or a broader one in which the community or organization played a part. It should be one that is important to the community or organization, and for which you have good information. You may wish to bring together information on the example before beginning. At the end, you are asked for photos and any other items that describe the example, though these can also be provided at a later date if you prefer.

How to provide your experiences…

You can do so in one of three ways:

(1) Click the first button to participate online. This is preferable, if internet access is sufficient, as it provides the best way to submit the information. Note that clicking the button will bring you first to a ‘consent form’ to review, then clicking “I Agree” will begin the process.

(2) Click one of the other buttons to participate by completing a Word or fillable PDF file. You will be able to download it in the format of your choice. There is a ‘consent form’ on the first page, for you to review. Once completed, send us an email with your file as an attachment, to SSF-Stewardship@smu.ca.

(3) If you would like the SSF-Stewardship team to work with you to participate, please send an email to SSF-Stewardship@smu.ca and we will be pleased to contact you to make suitable arrangements.

Participate online

Participate using a Word file

Participate using a PDF file

Or obtain assistance by sending an email to SSF-Stewardship@smu.ca